The British Journal of Psychiatry 145: 254-262 (1984)
© 1984 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Cognitive-behaviour therapy for depression: problems and perspectives
JM Williams
A number of reviews of the effectiveness of cognitive behaviour therapy for
depression, though optimistic, have pointed to some difficulties in
interpretation of the outcome literature. These difficulties, and the
extent to which more recent research has dealt with them, are reviewed. It
is suggested that while some of the genuine difficulties have been
resolved, and other commonly expressed criticisms may prove to be
unfounded, there remain a number of important areas of ignorance which
demand further investigation.